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BSI Rules!

UPDATED: As of January 18, 2010 – BSI is back! Email me at: mybizzykitchen@gmail.com if you would like to host the next event!😀

In an effort to help new weekly hosts, and people who are new to BSI, here are the rules!😀

BSI stands for Blogger Secret Ingredient. Each week a new host picks an ingredient and anyone (food blogger or not) can submit a recipe. The contests starts on a Monday, and recipes need to be submitted by Sunday night of that week. Then the next day the host chooses a winner and picks someone to host next weeks contest.

It is up to each weeks host to deem what the prize will be. It will be up to the discretion of each host – I’ve received homemade sugar free bread and cute hello kitty socks for my two wins!

Each host needs to cut and paste the following previous hosts – I’ll update it each week with that new persons information to keep it easier for the next host.

To recap:

Pick an ingredient, preferably one that is in season and readily available and not too expensive;

link back to all the other previous weekly hosts;

review the recipe submissions by Sunday night of each week;

pick a recipe that is your favorite; and

Post the winner Monday morning and send the winner a token prize of your choosing.

you do not have to have a food blog to participate

you do not have to submit a photograph

your link doesn’t have to be current, just as long as the secret ingredient is used

if you don’t have a blog, you can submit your recipe to that weeks host, and they will post your recipe for you

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56 thoughts on “BSI Rules!”

Just so I am clear on this I do NOT think that being featured on someones blog and facebook page is a prize. That comes with the territory. The prize SHOULD be something small and cool, worth busting your hump for. IMHO.

Hi Biz, followed the rules and entered a recipe last week only to find out that I wasn’t qualified to enter because I had no photo. Here is the email I sent to last week’s host:

Hi Kim, I just checked your blog to see results for BSI and was surprised to learn that my recipe was not listed. I thought I followed the instructions that were posted at Biggest Diabetic Loser. When I saw your judging criteria I realized that perhaps BSI has evolved and now has more rules to follow (photos, for one). If so, the instructions should be amended to show that. Also, since you mentioned judging criteria in your blog post, my question would be was that your judging criteria or is it criteria that everyone is using? And is it typical to have more than one person judging? I think some uniformity is called for here, and judging criteria should also be listed in the instructions.

I would not have gone to the trouble of sending in an entry had I known that I didn’t even have a chance.

Kim wrote me back and told me to contact you since you are the originator. I’d like to be involved in BSI, but need to know what rules to follow and how the entries will be judged. Not trying to be picky, so if that’s offensive forgive me.

Poor Judy!😦 From what I always understood you didn’t need a photo to enter – heck, you didn’t even need a blog – you could email it to them instead of linking back. Biz’s instructions also just say you need to submit a recipe, nothing about a photo. I’m sorry on your behalf that Kim didn’t let you participate!

I agree Laura. Sometimes I go to a few stores to track down the ingredient, so a tiny prize would make it worth it. Although, I have never won😛 and also I realize people might not be able to afford a prize and/or shipping currently, but it does stink and I think if you could possible scrape together $5 to buy a couple cute things (like Sophia’s Hello Kitty socks) it should be done!

I have a question. One of my blogging friends submitted a recipe, but on her post it says she got the recipe from a magazine. I was under the impression that it has to be the person’s ORIGINAL recipe but I can’t actually find that in the rules. I love the recipe she submitted but can it even be qualified? If not I’d love to still feature it for people looking for rice ideas, just not as part of the contest.🙂

Yum, that sounds deoilicus. We had canned soup and sandwiches for dinner. Looks like I’ll be visiting you more often (and before dinner next time!) Hi! Anyway, I’m a brand new SITSa and just wanted to introduce myself and invite you over to Two Under Two. Whew! for my super-fun-and-little-bit-silly giveaways, one of which is tied to our fellow SITSa, BlogBaby! You could win a collection from Tiny Two’s Baby Animals line, or some chocolate covered pretzels! See you around the blogosphere friend!

“Not rarely used by me. It’s not an app, it’s a quick inortmafion utility.”So use Ksysguard then. Why should that functionality be replicated in Krunner?”That’s your guess.”Not really. Users don’t have any reason to view those processes during normal usage, while they DO have the need to frequently use Krunner. Why should an everyday-plasmoid like Krunner be overloaded with functionality that is only rarely used? Sure, there might be special cases where list of processes is useful, but we should use special tools for special cases. And we already have such a tool.”Since when is a 24 pixel button in your face?”Um, since the icon is prominently based in a plasmoid that is planned to have very, very frequent use?”And until software is perfect, that will continue to be a valid use case.”It IS a valid use-case, I’m not disputing that. And we already have tools just for that use-case: Ksystemguard. So why do we need it in Krunner as well?”Way to blow this out of proportion. “Screams for attention”? Please. Don’t be ridiculous.”I’m not. Every UI-element screams for attention. So why have UI-elements that are not needed?”Yes, checking on running apps, figuring out why your system is slow, killing runaway processes.”And we already have Ksystemguard for that… So why do we need this in Krunner? It just makes the app and UI more complex that it needs to be.”But there is good reason for it to be, since there is nothing like Ctrl-Alt-Del in Linux, so how do you recover when your desktop is frozen? Krunner achieves that.”Putting it in Krunner is suboptimal workaround for a problem that should be fixed elsewhere. Why not have a separate process-plasmoid for those who want to keep their eye on their processes? Should we put all kinds of strange functionality in Krunner “just in case”?How do could the system be recovered if the desktop is frozen? Well, since Krunner is still available (why else have this functionality there?), why not launch Krunner and use it to launch Ksystemguard?Krunner should be focused on core set of functionality, as opposed of acting as a dumbing-ground for bunch on unrelated features. Just dumbing features there makes it incoherent, unfocused and confusing.

There are a lot of great Science magazines. Talk to your Library Specialist. I woldun’t print a whole year worth in one night. The Science world is always changing. If you do them all this week, your teacher will know that you did that, and don’t care about the class. This might affect your grade.

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